EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: Bill Herring “This Little Sparrow” inside front cover
Neglected Help: Woody Guthrie Verses of “This Land is Your Land” you might not know inside back cover
Cover photo: “Nesting Tree, Bay Farm Island, Alameda, CA” Andrena Zawinski
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Clela Reed, Matthew Mendoza, Matthew Spireng, Ace Boggess, Kristin Laurel
SUSAN KNOX Teacher, Teacher 6
SCOTT PEDERSEN While Dad’s Away 14
GARY STECIUK While the Giant Sleeps 21
MURZBAN F SHROFF The Homecoming 28
KENNETH M KAPP Leaping Lenny 39
DENNIS VANNATTA Doo-dah, Doo-dah 44
DANIEL KENITZ The Cycle 60
FRED MCGAVRAN Light from Light 76
RICHARD RISEMBERG The Rescuer 106
BILL JONES Switchblade 115
PHILIP GOLDBERG Dummy No More 125
ZAN BOCKES The Story of a Story 135
MICHAEL FRYD The Reunion 158
BRAD SHURMANTINE Office Party 163
ANGELA BIER The Reason Why 36
MELANIE CHARTOFF Happily Never After 53
EDA ZAHL Big Noise in the Jungle 95
MALLY Z RAY Getting Thrown 145
ROGER REAL DROUIN Birding with Julien 155
BILL HERRING This Little Sparrow inside front cover
MATTHEW FEENEY What I long for… 6
MICHAEL HARMON Open Book 11
The Artificial Kind 11
The Great Agnostic Dies 12
PAULA YUP My Father’s Knife 18
Doing Nothing 19
DEBORAH H DOOLITTLE Their Life Before
This One 20
GREG STIDHAM Raccoon Hour 26
Pens and Indentations 27
Rosary 28
DORTY NOWAK Q&A 35
IRIS LITT Upon the Discovery in Persia of Bodies
Preserved by Sand 38
CRAIG EVENSON Tinnitus 43
BRIAN C BILLINGS Three Colors of Denver 49
A Holiday Robbery 50
Driving Lesson 51
Dry January 51
The Moms Who Stayed in the
Maynard House 52
LOIS ROSEN Fire Escape 56
At the Conservatory Orchid Show 57
Seamstress 58
When She Finally Called Back 59
Fire Hydrant Hero 59
MICHELLE M TOKARCZYK Gray 73
Farewell to My Bicycle, 1997-2019 74
MARION DEUTSCHE COHEN Math 93
Lives 94
The Big Bangs Theory 94
KAREN ARNOLD Monet and the Moment 105
JACQUELINE HENRY Refrain 113
Blue 114
SUSAN FLYNN Isthmus of Silence 121
King Fire 122
Two Questions and a Six-foot Memory 123
BRUCE ROBINSON Police Blotter 133
Dozens of Eggs in a Carton, and
a Dozen Rules of Thumb 135
BARBARA TRAMONTE God and Real Estate 135
SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE Specimens 141
Greystone Chip Shots 142
Um, Bye. 143
Buyer’s Remorse 143
A Year after Failing You 144
MICHAEL T SMITH Bakku-Shan 154
ELEANORE LEE Memory 155
LEISHA DOUGLAS Hopi Necklace 157
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI Hungry Tigers 161
Painted Angels 162
BETSY FOGELMAN TIGHE An Unidentified Performer… 167
At 5, My Blood Aunt Teaches Me
What She Could Never Do 168
The Chinese Girl Speaks 168
Snowstorm, Central Park, NY
Platinum Print, 1917 Laura Gilpin 169
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